Exhibitions

On until 3.5 2026

Opening 12.2 at 17.00—20.00

Shubigi Rao’s exhibition Pulp I—IV maps the destruction of books, attacks on libraries, the erasure of women’s voices, language loss, and activists running shadow libraries. This is the first comprehensive survey on the decade-long project Pulp, that accounts of how culture has been lost or destroyed, and the resistance that has grown in its wake.

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Activities

Ongoing

Är du skolbibliotekarie, lärare, specialpedagog, kulturombud eller rektor? Den här kvällen är för dig!

Vi informerar om vårens skolprogram och bjuder på en guidad visning av den fantastiska utställningen Pulp I-IV med Shubigi Rao från Singapore, där berättelser från översvämmade bibliotek, röster från gömda manuscript och bannade böcker kommer till liv genom teckning, film, konstnärsböcker och fotografi.

Du får chans att testa vår taktila mobila bokvagn, mingla med oss och andra från skolvärlden.

Bubbel i glasen och snittar utlovas.

Anmälan: anna-stina@tenstakonsthall.se senast den 13:e februari.
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Välkomna alla barn, unga och familjer på ett sportlov på Tensta konsthall fullt med aktiviteter i bokens tecken — med inspiration från utställningen Shubigi Rao, Pulp I—IV!

24 februari kl. 12.30—14.30
Azins längtan — Sagoläsning och skapande workshop med Läslandet.
Läslandet gästar Tensta konsthall och gör en 4D-högläsning av boken Azins längtan av Peimaneh Mollazehi och Lotta Geffenblad. Boken handlar om fåglar som inte får flyga.

I staden där Azin bor i är det förbjudet att flyga, det har Ugglan bestämt. Men Azinslängtan efter att få flyga är stark och efter en kort hemlig flygtur är hon fast…

Program
Kl. 12.30—13.00: Kom och gör vingar av papper. (Drop-in)
Kl. 13.00—13.30 Högläsning av Azins längtan. (Läsning görs i sluten grupp, drop-in)
Kl.13.30—14.30 Vi gör en gemensam skulptur i papper och färg med inspiration från boken och utställningen Shubigi Rao Pulp I-IV. (Drop-in)

Ålder: 3-9 år med medföljande vuxen.
Anmälan för fritids: anna-stina@tenstakonsthall.se

25-27 februari kl. 13—15
Vi läser glömda berättelser, målar, gör egna böcker och tillverkar papper med inspiration från utställningen Shubigi Rao Pulp I-IV och vår mobila taktila bokvagn.
Från: 5-100 år. Begränsat med platser!
Anmälan för fritids: anna-stina@tenstakonsthall.se

Kostnadsfritt. Material och fika ingår.
Med stöd från Familjebostäder och Svenska Bostäder.
Bilden är en illustration från boken Azins längtan, av Lotta Geffenblad
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Välkommen på Konstlördagar med Studio Funk!
Vi träffas fyra lördagar under våren kl. 13.00–16.00
28 feb
28 mars
25 april
23 maj

Konstlördagar är för dig som vill skapa och uppleva konst. Tillsammans med konstnären Gazelle Kianoush får du uppleva konsten i våra utställningar och skapa i olika material. Det är för vuxna med funktionsnedsättningar som bor inom LSS eller arbetar i daglig verksamhet. Du kan komma själv eller i grupp. Det är alltid gratis. Material och kaffe ingår.

Datum:
28 februari: Måleri med svart tusch.
28 mars: Taktil visning av utställningen Shubigi Rao- Pulp I-IV.
25 april: Collage- skapa egna bilder av material från böcker.
23 maj: Pappersmarmorering- skapa egna bokomslag och bilder.

Anmälan: anna-stina@tenstakonsthall.se

Studio Funk – Konstlördagar genomförs med stöd av Fritidsutvecklarna–Stockholm Stad

Bild: Shubigi Rao, Untangling the Thicket: A Brief Guide to Pulp I–IV, detail, 2022 © Shubigi Rao
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Five Wednesdays in the spring of 2026, young adults between the ages of 15 and 26 who are eager to write meet in the writing and reading course led by Nawroz Zakholy, poet and author.

Wednesdays February 18, March 4, March 18, April 1, April 15 at 17.30—19.30

The emphasis will be on poetry, spoken word and writing for, for example, theater, but also on exploring different storytelling techniques.

On a couple of occasions the course will be guested by other active authors.
The course is carried out with the support of the Swedish Arts Council.

For registration and more information: nawroz.zakholy@gmail.com

Image: Nachla Libre, Alma de Artista, Nobel Week Lights, Tensta centrum 2025. Photo: Tensta konsthall
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Vad händer när vi låter texten växa fram i kollektivt skapande?

Vi gör kollektiva skrivövningar med inspiration från Shubigi Raos konstnärskap och utställningen Pulp I–IV. Kvällen leds av Lizette Romero Niknami, författare och kursledare, och Nawroz Zakholy, författare och kursledare. Workshopen avslutas med en uppläsning.
Begränsat antal platser.

Anmäl dig till info@tenstakonsthall.se senast måndag 16 mars.
Kvällen är ett samarbete mellan Biskops-Arnös Författarskola och Tensta konsthalls Skrivkurs.
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Ellen Key Must Be Stopped! is a wild, beautiful, and poetic performance created and performed by Catti Brandelius and Anneli Jordahl, premiering during the jubilee year 2026, marking 100 years since Ellen Key’s death. It is a showy musical performance about one of Sweden’s most important thinkers.

The production combines newly written dialogue and music and portrays Ellen Key’s life in her home, Strand, by Lake Vättern, where she lived together with her housekeeper and “daughterly friend” Malin Blomsterberg. Through the relationship between Ellen and Malin, Ellen Key’s life story and groundbreaking achievements are brought to the fore: her passionate engagement in democratic movements—which also included children and women—and how this provoked outrage and fierce backlash. It depicts how she gathered women from all social classes at Strand for exchange, discussion, and education; how she was mocked and questioned; and how her work has shaped our society and continues to do so, a hundred years after her death. What drove her?

Tickets available here.

On stage: Catti Brandelius, Anneli Jordahl, and Åsa Johnsen
Script: Catti Brandelius and Anneli Jordahl
Dialogue: Anneli Jordahl
Music: Catti Brandelius, Eric Palmqwist, Juno Brandelius
Direction: Therese Hörnqvist
Set design: Linn Delin, Atelier Delin
Sound & Lighting: Simon Ahlgren, NANANA
Graphic design: Lotta Kühlhorn
Photography: Åse Bengtsson Helin
Producer: Elin Trogen, La Firme Catti Brandelius

Catti Brandelius is an artist and musician, known for her alter ego Miss Universum. She has previously written a song about Ellen Key and drawn on Key’s ideas in the performance Profesora (2005).
www.cattibrandelius.se

Anneli Jordahl is an author. She wrote the novel I Would Be Your Dog (If Only I Might Be in Your Presence), a fictional portrayal of selected episodes from Ellen Key’s life, including her love story with Urban von Feilitzen. Parts of the script are based on the book.

Practical information:
The performance is approximately 1 hour long, without intermission.
Seating is unnumbered.
No age limit. Younger children and infants should wear hearing protection.
Accessibility:
There is no designated wheelchair seating area in the audience, but the seating arrangement can be adapted.

Ellen Key has to be stopped is a guest production in collaboration with Tensta konsthall, with support from Konstnärsnämnden and Längmanska Kulturfonden.
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Always on

Studio Funk—Contemporary Art for All
Allmänna Arvsfonden 2-year project
Period: September 2024—September 2026
Where? At Tensta konsthall and online

What is Studio Funk?
Studio Funk is a project aiming to create art activities for young people with various disabilities in the Järva area. We will have both a physical studio and digital studio where young people can participate in art and cultural activities.

Target Group
The project is for young people interested in:
Art
Social issues
Creative activities

How Do We Work?
A coordinator from the target group leads the project.
We collaborate with organizations working in art and culture.

What Do Participants Do?
Plan, take part in, and produce programs, workshops, studio visits, and audio guides for Studio Funk.
Help to improve accessibility, both at Tensta konsthall and online.

Upcoming activities, Studio Funk:
Bli konstproducent - Höstkurs 2025

Earlier activities, Studio Funk:
Franstorps Verkstäder gästar Studio Funk
VIP-visning av utställningen Fred med jorden
Från rock till oljud
Teckning med Sara Bayrami
Flytande tusch
Konstvisning med Studio Funk
Worskhop med Shamiram Adam

Contact Us
Inquiries: Anna-Stina Ulfström, curator.
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Tuesdays and Thursdays, women from the Järva area meet at Tensta konsthall to work with different kinds of crafts. Through joint handiwork, a safe space is made possible where conversation and exchange of experience is at the center. The craftsmanship skills that women in the group already have is amplified up and reinforced by teachers from Hemslöjden and by the other participants. Participants also meet visiting artists and make monthly excursions to Stockholm’s various craft sites, museums, and organizations. Women’s Café is a intimate venue free of constraints, costs, and commercial interests. Muna Alyaqoobi and Asha Mohamed lead the Women's Café.
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Fridays and Sundays we welcome participants to our Language Café, open for those who want to practice their basics in Swedish and Arabic, as well as get to make new friends and share experiences and thoughts. The Language Café particularily welcomes those who, for some reason, stand outside the Swedish educational system. During the meetings, we practice grammar, socialize, read simple books and excersise conversation. We are continuously looking for new volunteers.

Are you interested in joining in?
Contact Fahyma Alnablsi: fahyma@tenstakonsthall.se

During the warm months, the Language Café moves out to our allotment, our outdoor classroom. The Language Café is a part of The Silent University, an autonomous educational platform for asylum seekers, refugees and paperless people initiated by the artist Ahmet Ögüt (www.thesilentuniversity.org)
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Tensta’s Magic Wormholes is a digital artwork in augmented reality (AR)
This work is visible in the asphalt just outside Tensta konsthall on Taxingeplan. When you download the free app Tensta’s Magic Wormholes and point your phone at the sprayed patterns, a virtual world filled with memories and stories from around the globe open up on the screen. The patterns, suggested by Tensta residents in collaboration with Women’s Café at Tensta konsthall, reflect everything from the European history of the tulip with its Turkish roots to designs inspired by the underground church of Lalibela in Ethiopia.

Bella Rune (born 1971) lives and works in Stockholm. She was educated at Chelsea College of Arts in London and Beckmans School of Design in Stockholm. Rune primarily works with sculpture, experimenting with various materials and techniques, often incorporating performative elements. The app is produces together with Red Banners.
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Tensta Art Gallery offers guided tours, workshops, Creative School and Inspirational materials for schools.

Tactile Mobile Tour
Book a tactile mobile tour of the fantastic exhibition Pulp I—IV with Shubigi Rao from Singapore, where stories from flooded libraries, voices from hidden manuscripts and banned books come to life through drawing, film, artist books and photography.

A tactile mobile viewing is an interactive viewing that takes place in direct connection with the exhibition, inspired by the artworks. Together, we explore different materials, expressions and methods.

Tactile mobile viewings can be booked for all ages and last approximately 45 minutes. Suitable for adapted school visits. Free for middle school classes in Järva. Others: SEK 900.Can be booked Tuesday-Friday from 17 February to 29 April 2026.

##Creative school
From Renaissance painters' apprentices, artist couples such as Carl and Karin Larsson and Andy Warhol with his The Factory in New York where people created together around the clock. In the workshop, students get to try collaborating on a theme and work in pairs to create a joint painting on the same canvas. The workshop is led by an art educator and artist who gives instructions and talks about collective creation throughout history. It will be an exercise in collaboration, communicating about abstract things and not least developing the ability to use the hands, brain and heart in sync.

Cost: 5,000 SEK/occasion and class.
Materials included.

NOTE! The school takes the cost from earmarked funds for Creative School. Ask your principal!

##Creative School: Clay Sculpture—Nature Creatures, New Species, and Contemporary MythologyFor middle and high school students, takes about 90–120 minutes.

We work with clay sculpture. What could a nature creature look like today, with inspiration from mythology, sci-fi, and folk beliefs? The forest has always been a place for fairy tales and mystery. Man's close contact with nature and the need to explain the world through it have given rise to stories that have lived on through folk beliefs and forest creatures such as fairies, and trolls. We learn about folk beliefs, myths, what nature stood for historically, and how we can view it today. What would today's nature creature look like in light of climate change, human development, future monoculture, invasive species, and endangered flora? We work with clay. At Tensta konsthall / Campus Tensta.

Cost: 8,000 SEK/ event and class. NOTE! The cost is taken by the school from earmarked funds for Creative School. Ask your principal!

For questions and bookings, contact anna-stina@tenstakonsthall.se
For questions and bookings, contact anna-stina@tenstakonsthall.se (Anna-Stina Ulfström, mediator).
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